PORTLAND, Ore. (KATU) — Multnomah County announced a new rule to limit distributing tents to people experiencing homelessness, as a part of an ongoing effort to analyze the policy and its ...

Multnomah County Circuit Judge David F. Rees on Friday sentenced Lucero to 108 months in prison, to be served concurrently with a separate Washington County sentence for identity theft and ...

Multnomah County Judge Melvin Oden-Orr delayed resentencing hearings after former prosecutors and District Attorney-elect Nathan Vasquez criticized the process, saying crime victims aren't ...

“I want to conduct these examinations,” said Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge David F. Rees. “We’ll just see where we can get with that to get to a development of a factual record to ...

Multnomah County Circuit Judge David Rees sentenced Benson to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 25 years. Benson was on trial in the Sept. 11, 2020, killing of Christopher Klein ...

A Multnomah County judge on Monday found Austin H. Graham guilty except for insanity of murdering his mother, 59-year-old Teresa A. Graham, in October 2023. Judge David Rees ordered Graham ...

Multnomah County Chair Jessica Vega Pederson is defending what she calls limited and “rare” use of private email channels to conduct county business. The remarks came in a newsletter from the ...

Despite recent legal challenges, Multnomah County Circuit Judge David F. Rees has dismissed an attempt to block the center's launch. According to a news release from Multnomah County, the judge ...

When possession of hard drugs became a crime again in Oregon on Sunday, Multnomah County still had a lot to figure out, especially inside the courtroom. The chief criminal judge for Multnomah ...

Multnomah County sealed a time capsule into the wall of the Multnomah County Central Courthouse, sending judges and staff 98 years in the future a portrait of Portland in the summer and fall of 2020.

All the while, with very few taking notice, Multnomah County’s comparable commission has been quietly working on its own momentous change: a ballot measure that could give residents who are not ...

“I look at those, and I wonder: what would a judge need to see to believe that person is going to show up in court,” KATU Investigator Wright Gazaway asked Multnomah County Chief Criminal Judg ...